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Pathologist and Anthropologist Worksheet

1) Define what a forensic pathologist does.

2) Define autopsy.

3) List the five categories a manner of death can be listed as.

4) Define rigor mortis.

5) When does rigor mortis start and stop?

6) What can a pathologist use rigor mortis to tell them?

7) Define livor mortis.

8) What can be determined using livor mortis?

9) Define algor mortis.

10) What does algor morits tell the pathologist?

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11) Define forensic anthropology.

12) List 4 things that can be learned from the bones of a person.